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23 THE MAN OF THE WORLD.
Hie did not feel, to the attachment ot lo
much worth as Bolton’s, and he had foon
the happinefs to find, that his affe&ion,
which every day increafed, was not la-
viflied without hope of a return.
But he did not feem to be fo fortunate,
meanwhile, in the eftimation of every
perfon in the family: Sir Thomas Sindall
had not of late fhown that cordiality to¬
wards Bolton, with which he had been
wont to favour him. As Harry was in-
confcious of any reafon he could have
siven for it, this alteration in his cou-
fin’s behaviour was, for fome time, alto¬
gether unnoticed by him: and, when at
laft he was forced to obferve it, he attri¬
buted it to no particular caufe, but confi-
dered it as merely the effeft of fome acci¬
dental and temporary chagrin: nor did
he altogether change his opinion, even
when Lucy fuggefted to him her fears on
the fubjeft, and entreated him to recoiled,
if